Milwaukee approves 3rd electric scooter study

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee will launch a 3rd dockless electrical scooter pilot examine this summer time, town introduced Tuesday, June 21.

The Frequent Council unanimously permitted the pilot examine Tuesday. After being signed into legislation by the mayor, it’s anticipated scooters might be again on town’s streets in early August. 

“Incorporating new expertise with a number of modes of transportation provides vitality to Milwaukee, rising public exercise and connecting individuals to neighborhood companies,” Mayor Cavalier Johnson stated in a information launch. “This scooter pilot aligns with that imaginative and prescient, and I thank the Frequent Council for approving this program.”

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Like pilot research performed in 2019 and 2021, this yr’s examine would allow as much as 1,800 amongst three scooter firms to participate. The examine might be managed by the Milwaukee Division of Public Works.

Throughout the latest pilot examine in 2021, town discovered a mean of two,452 riders per day. At th time, 70% of individuals surveyed thought scooters needs to be allowed.

The pilot examine is scheduled to finish Dec. 31. If Milwaukee adopts a scooter licensing earlier than that date, the examine might be suspended.

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The examine’s objective, town stated, is to “observe, solicit suggestions on, and consider the effectiveness of dockless scooters in Milwaukee for the aim of figuring out easy methods to finest incorporate scooters into the transportation panorama shifting ahead.”

Extra particulars relating to the examine might be discovered on town’s web site.